English Dictionary

pretty

/ˈpɹɪti/

adj

Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. / Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.

She wore a pretty dress to the party.

意味（1）

Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

意味（2）

Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.

'Petit Posy' brassicas […] are a cross between kale and brussels sprouts, and are really very pretty with a mild, sweet taste.

意味（3）

(often derogatory) Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.

Damned by the Socialists as traitors to the working class, its leaders were decried by Tories as faceless peddlers of politics with a pretty little trinket for every taste.

意味（4）

Cunning; clever, skilful.

In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, right across the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlong into the brook […].

意味（5）

(dated) Moderately large; considerable.

they flung all the goods in the house out at the windows into the street, or into the sea, as they supposed; thus they continued mad a pretty season […].

意味（6）

(dated) Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).

Some people are surprised, I believe, that that the eldest was not [named after his father], but Isabella would have him named Henry, which I thought very pretty of her.

意味（7）

(ironic) Awkward, unpleasant.

Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you.